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<p>For a given value of &quot;scientist&quot; of course.</p>
Sat, 15 Oct 2011 23:52:17 +0000Shahabcomment 275038 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: UK Neuroscientist Claims Games Can Cause Dementia in ...http://www.gamepolitics.com/2011/10/14/uk-neuroscientist-claims-games-can-cause-dementia-children#comment-275035
<p>Actually Susan Greenfield is well known within the scientific community and quite derided, essentially because she constantly makes wild claims (as a scientist) without an basis of evidence. She&#39;s well known for being outspoken and playing fast and loose with facts. She abuses her position too much.</p>
<p>She&#39;s been controversial and lost her credibility a long time ago.</p>
Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:31:57 +0000Statecomment 275035 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: UK Neuroscientist Claims Games Can Cause Dementia in ...http://www.gamepolitics.com/2011/10/14/uk-neuroscientist-claims-games-can-cause-dementia-children#comment-275034
<p>Did some further reading and found this gem: &quot;&#39;Of course, we do not know whether the current increase in autism is due more to increased awareness and diagnosis of autism, or whether it can - if there is a true increase - be in any way linked to an increased prevalence among people of spending time in screen relationships. Surely it is a point worth considering,&#39; she added.&quot;</p>
<p>She thinks using the computer causes Autism. Case closed, this Baroness is a an embarrassment.</p>
Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:39:44 +0000Shahabcomment 275034 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: UK Neuroscientist Claims Games Can Cause Dementia in ...http://www.gamepolitics.com/2011/10/14/uk-neuroscientist-claims-games-can-cause-dementia-children#comment-275033
<p>From the article &quot;She also said that, on average, children spend around 2,000 hours a year either playing games or doing other things online.&quot;</p>
<p>Do a little math and that comes out to 5.5 hours a day, every day. BS. Some kids are on that long and longer but I really doubt the average is that high.</p>
<p>More importantly she presents ZERO data to back up her claims. That makes her claims totally and completely worthless. You can&#39;t say stuff like this:</p>
<p>&quot;She went on to say that such activity could cause connections in the brain to be &quot;temporarily disabled&quot;,&nbsp; or even&nbsp; &quot;inactivated permanently by degeneration &mdash; ie. dementia.&quot; Other symptoms she mentioned included shortened attention spans and a tendency for reckless behavior.&quot;</p>
<p>without sound data to back it up. It just makes you look like a lunatic. Another old stogy dinosaur afraid of technology that she doesn&#39;t understand.</p>
Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:35:49 +0000Shahabcomment 275033 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: UK Neuroscientist Claims Games Can Cause Dementia in ...http://www.gamepolitics.com/2011/10/14/uk-neuroscientist-claims-games-can-cause-dementia-children#comment-275028
<p>I&#39;m smarter than a scientist! :D</p>
Sat, 15 Oct 2011 06:34:49 +0000ecco6t9comment 275028 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: UK Neuroscientist Claims Games Can Cause Dementia in ...http://www.gamepolitics.com/2011/10/14/uk-neuroscientist-claims-games-can-cause-dementia-children#comment-275024
<p>By my calculations, it came out to just <em>under</em> 5 &amp; a half hours actually (5.47 to be precise). And I&#39;m pretty sure most of those take place at school, for academic purposes, under teacher supervision. So she&#39;s basically bashing today&#39;s education.</p>
Sat, 15 Oct 2011 01:01:54 +0000Vake Xeaconscomment 275024 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: UK Neuroscientist Claims Games Can Cause Dementia in ...http://www.gamepolitics.com/2011/10/14/uk-neuroscientist-claims-games-can-cause-dementia-children#comment-275023
<p>To quote Christopher Titus</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&quot;Why am I not psychotic!?!?!?&quot;</p>
Fri, 14 Oct 2011 23:57:04 +0000hellfire7885comment 275023 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: UK Neuroscientist Claims Games Can Cause Dementia in ...http://www.gamepolitics.com/2011/10/14/uk-neuroscientist-claims-games-can-cause-dementia-children#comment-275019
<p>What she proabaly forgot to mention was the new drug they were researching that would counteract the effects that these children were going through. &nbsp;That averages out to just a touch over 5 and a half hours a day every day all year long. &nbsp;So according to her the average kid gets online at 4pm and doesn&#39;t stop till 930pm or so.</p>
Fri, 14 Oct 2011 21:15:19 +0000Cormiccomment 275019 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: UK Neuroscientist Claims Games Can Cause Dementia in ...http://www.gamepolitics.com/2011/10/14/uk-neuroscientist-claims-games-can-cause-dementia-children#comment-275018
<p>No, I wouldn&#39;t doubt that she&#39;d actually say something like this.</p>
<p>What Ben Goldacre had to say about her a couple of years ago is <a href="http://bengoldacre.posterous.com/a-clarification-why-people-have-been-concerne">worth reading</a>.</p>
<p>(With the caveat that I think his second point, while it&#39;s something I personally agree with, is kind of neither here nor there.)</p>
Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:15:20 +0000Allan Weallanscomment 275018 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: UK Neuroscientist Claims Games Can Cause Dementia in ...http://www.gamepolitics.com/2011/10/14/uk-neuroscientist-claims-games-can-cause-dementia-children#comment-275016
<p>Yeah, being sourced in the Sun and the Daily Mail doesn&#39;t exactly make for overwhelming credibility!</p>
Fri, 14 Oct 2011 19:41:03 +0000Samstercomment 275016 at http://www.gamepolitics.com